To:G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Written:Written May 17, 1916Published:First published in 1964 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49.

      Sent from Zurich to Berne.

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      Moscow,Volume 43,

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Youare 1,000 times wrong about theJaps. Let
them publish separately in theirown name. We can’t have them
shuffling off the responsibility for this follyupon us: let them
answer for it themselves. I amfora discussion, but not for an
agreement with theEditorial Boardof “imperialist Economists”,
and I shall havenothing whateverto do with such a journal, as I
have written many a time.

Thismust be put an end to. It’s no use dragging it out. We must
announceSbornik Sotsial-Demokrata.

Aboutthe Distributing Committee, there can be no question of having it
transferred here. We have no one here, while in Berne we have Zina+Inessa
(howcouldyou allow her to leave?? I’m
surprised!!)+Shklovsky+Ilyin+Karpinsky+Kasparov. They must be organised and
none of them allowed to leave.

Iwould like very much to getAvanti!, as I see it here only
in the library. I have not seen what you write about.

Wecannot promise A—der
100–150 frs.[1]You can’t throw promises about and then find you
haven’t got the money (“pressure on the groups” are mere words). A
six-month trip can only do good, as he won’t be going homebefore that in any case, and Norway is only a place for scandal.

TheStellungnahme should be put in, as the Manifesto and all the rest
areall poor. We must show that we said this beforemore
exactlyandfully. This is more important than the
article. How much space do the documents occupy (the
Manifesto+theses+resolution on the
I.S.B.)?[2]Write more precisely.

Ishall send the material in a day or two.

Andso, you have sent Sukhanov? At last you have answered, after
20 inquiries. I am so surprised at your punctuality that I am writing
specially to Minin about it:
hurray![3]

Salut,Lenin

Ihave receivedDemainabout the
conference.[4]Have you got it?

P.S.Minin suggests publishing a collection of decisions of international
congresses.[5]We already have 300 copies (on 70 pages)up to
1904. Add (paste in) 1904–12 and a preface. To be sold at
50 centimes. It will pay for itself.

Iam for it. Answer.

[1]A.Shlyapnikovhaving raised the question of going to America for
several months, Zinoviev asked Lenin not to consent to Shlyapnikov’s
departure and to promise to remit 100–150 francs to him monthly in the
course of the next six months.

[2]Thisrefers to the “Proposals of the R.S.D.L.P. Central Committee to
the Second Socialist Conference” and the decisions adopted at the Kienthal
Conference, namely: the appeal “To the Peoples Who Are Ruined and
Slaughtered”, the theses on “The Attitude of the Proletariat to the
Question of Peace” and the resolution “On the Attitude to the
International Socialist Bureau at The Hague”.

[3]Thereference is to an article of Sukhanov’s “Our Left Parties”,
which was to have been forwarded to Minin (V. A. Karpinsky).

[4]Reportson the Kienthal Conference were published in No. 5. of the
journalDemainwhich appeared on May 15, 1916.  Probably Lenin is
referring to the editorial in that issue entitled “Zimmerwald” from the
pen of Henri Guilbeaux.

Demain—a journal of the French internationalists, appeared
in Geneva from 1916 to 1918. The last issue, No. 31, came out in Moscow in
1919 as the mouthpiece of a group of French Communists.

[5]Acollection of decisions of international congresses of the Second
International was to have been published by the War Prisoners Relief
Committee under the Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. Organisations Abroad. It
was intended for circulation in the P.O.W. camps located in Germany and
Austria-Hungary. The collection was not published.